Autographic register



Patented June 15, 1926.

UNITED STATES: PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER 'E. PRATT, OF RENO, NEVADA.

nu'roennrnrc REGISTER.

Application filed March 12,1924. Serial m. 698,762.

The present invention relates to new and body or housing 10, as shown at 25, and seuseful improvements in autographic registers, and it pertains more particularly to new and improved mechanism for holding and for facilitating the feeding of paper.

With the above and other objects in view, reference is bad to the a companying drawings, in which- Figure -1 1s a top plan view of a device constructed in accordance with the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a view in side 'elevationthereof;

Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view'thereof;

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of a slightly modified form of the invention, and

Fig. 5 is a top plan detail view of a still further modified form of the invention.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the reference numeral 10 designates the body or housing of the autographic regis ter, and 11 designates the top wall or plate thereof. The top wall or plate 11 is provided, adjacent one end thereof, witha cutout portion 12, to provide a writing space. Mounted within the housing3and carried by shafts A, are rolls of paper and the paper of said rolls is adapted to be fed over idle rollers 14, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2.

As more clearly shown in Fig. 3, there 1s a bottom plate 15, which is spaced with respect to the top wall 11, and the paper is fed in the space between the top wall or plate 11 and the plate 15. The plate 11 is provided near its forward end with a cutout portion 16, and such cut-out portion permits of the several sheets of paper being gripped to pull or feed them through the ripachine, which operation is illustrated in 1g. 3. I z

The extreme forward end of the top plate or wall 11 is beveled as shown at 17, to provide a cuttingedge 18, by means of which the several strips of paper are separated into individual leaves or'the like.

' Extending transversely of the housing 10 0f the machine, there is a rock shaft 20, and

projecting forwardly from said rock shaft and carried thereby are two spaced arms 21. As more clearly shown in Figeach of these arms has an angular end-jgportion 22, which angular end portions are adapted to move upwardly through openings '23 in the top wall or plate 11, such openings 23 being positioned upon opposite sides of the opening 16 heretofore mentioned. One

end of the shaft 20 is projected beyond the cured to such extended end there is a lever 26, which serves as an". operating member by means'of which the shaft 20 is rocked for a purpose to be hereinafiter described.

In Fig. 4 of the drawings a slightly modilied form of the invention is shown, and in this figure the opening 30 (designated as 16 in the preferred form of the invention) is provided with angularly-disposed side walls 31, a curved front wall 32. and a straight rear wall 33, the straight rear wall '33 being connected to the angularlyglsposed side walls 31 by straight side walls In that form of the invention shown in Fig. 5, the opening is designated by the reference numeral 40, and such opening is of rectangular form as shown.

In each of the modified forms of the invention, the end of the top wall 11 is rovided with a cutter 18 heretofore descri ed.

The device operates in the following manner:

With the parts in the position shown in Fig. 2, when it is desired to feed the paper strips, the lever 26 is elevated to rock the shaft 20, and cause the angular ends 22 of the arms 21 to disengage the openings 23. It is to be understood that when the angular ends 22 engage the openings 23, they pass through openings in the StI'IPS Of paper and thus hold the strips of paper agalnst movement. When, however, the angular ends 22 have been disengaged from the openings 23 and the openings in the strips of paper, the strips arei tfree to be fed forwardly and pulled by the hand of the operator as shown in Fig. 3. Immediately the strips are started the lever 26 is dropped which rocks the shaft 20 to a position where the angular ends 22 of the arms 21 will engage the under face of the bottom strip of paper, and immediately the holes in the paper register with the angularly disposed ends 22 of the arms 21, said angularly-disposed ends pass therethrough and prevent further movement of the strips of paper. \Vhen the operator has fed the strips of paper sufficiently to bring about this result, he tears off the strips along 'the cutter 18.

While in the present instance the lever 26 is shown upon that end of the shaft which would be positioned upon the right-hand side of the machine, it is obvious that the shaft may be extended upon the other side of the machine and the lever positioned thereon, which may be desirable in some instances, and, therefore, I do not Wish to be limitedto the exact showing of this elefment in the accompanying drawings.

g What is claimed is:

- spaced therefrom to form a guide for the 1. In an autograph register, a top plate having a cut-out portion. forming a writing space, an opening ad acent its .forward ed e .to provide for gripping the sheets to pu l them through the register and a small open-v ing at each side of the last named opemng,

the forward edge of the plate being beveled.

to form a cutting edge, a plate of less length than the top plate and arranged below and eets, a-rock shaft below the top plate and 7 having arms with angular ends adapted to gripped the operator and provided in its top wit oppositely arranged and spaced opemn a shaft mounted 1n the housing below t 1e top and having arms thereon, said arms having angular ends ada ted to enter the openings in the top of the ousing, and a lever on one end of the shaft and normally holding the arms of the shaft projecting into the said openings.

WALTER E. PRATT; 

